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I have had quite a day with Ubuntu issues.

At 5 pm today I installed an update to 22.04.3. Upon restart I logged back in and was greeted with a black screen. I tried:

(1) Logging in with ctrl + alt + f5 and reinstalling ubuntu-desktop via this post

(2) Everything described here which includes

(a) trying to login with a freshly created user

(b) Deleting nvidia drivers

(c) Reinstalling GNOME Display Manager

(3) Someone said removing .config/dconf/user fixed it for them here

None of these solutions worked so I said, whatever, we'll try a clean install

My clean install of 22.04.2, when I log in, I get to a grey screen with a frozen mouse

I'm on a MSI Prestige 15. Not sure what to do about this. Maybe upgrade to 23.04?

edit: I chose the "Erase disk first" option on a 2nd reinstall, which enabled me to get to the desktop. I installed a bunch of common software and thought I was good to go. But no. After shutting down and coming back 2 hrs later, Ubuntu went to the frozen grey screen again after login.

I didnt even change much.

edit2: Now on August 19th after surviving a solid week on Ubuntu, I get the issue again after shutting down my machine and starting it again. I did not even update the software this time, I just installed straight off the 22.04.2 installer

I will have to go back to Windows because this is so bad

plutownium
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  • I have been dealing with something similar; one suggestion I came across was to use the 6.0 kernel instead of the 6.2 that is shipped with 22.04.3. I am still trying this fix, and will take a couple of days to confirm if the freezing behavior has stopped. – digikar Aug 09 '23 at 20:38
  • I'm using a fresh install OK but I haven't updated from the default 22.04.3 yet. I suspect that updating will make the issue return – plutownium Aug 10 '23 at 03:47
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    Update: unfortunately, the freezing behavior continues, the 6.0 kernel doesn't seem to have helped. – digikar Aug 10 '23 at 07:02
  • Same issue here on HP zbook :/ y u do dis Ubuntu :( – AthulMuralidhar Aug 10 '23 at 12:06
  • the sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinsall worked for me - full answer here https://askubuntu.com/a/1453254/535677 – AthulMuralidhar Aug 10 '23 at 13:41
  • sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall gave me UnboundLocalError: local variable 'version' referenced before assignment which lead to an answer that said to "work around the autoinstaller" by doing sudo apt install nvidia-driver-530-open which appears to have worked for me. I got it to go to the desktop once. We'll see if it lasts. – plutownium Aug 19 '23 at 21:41

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